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The next step in the saga of a vacant Hickory Hill apartment complex could be announced Tuesday evening.

After years of working with the Atlanta-area owners of the Marina Cove Apartments, the city of Memphis in June was finally able to talk Water Gardens LLC of Smyrna, Ga., into selling the complex to a nonprofit community development corporation.

The city of Memphis is planning to apply for $64 million from the federal government’s second round of Neighborhood Stabilization Program funding.

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development got a little less than $2 billion of the so-called stimulus package Congress passed earlier this year to divvy up among states, local governments and nonprofit groups. Memphis city officials by July 17 will have applied for a chunk of that funding.

The owner of the Marina Cove apartment complex at 5505 Winchester Road in Hickory Hill has been ordered by Shelby County District Attorney General Bill Gibbons to clean the property and abate the nuisance it is causing.

The end could be near for the Marina Cove apartments at 5505 Winchester Road in Hickory Hill now that public nuisance charges have been filed against the complex and police have secured the sprawling property.

City and county officials announced Wednesday that they had filed public nuisance charges against the Marina Cove apartment complex at 5505 Winchester Road in Hickory Hill and that the Memphis Police Department’s Organized Crime Unit had secured the 394-unit, 24.16 acre property.

The sad tale of the Marina Cove apartments at 5505 Winchester Road in Hickory Hill should be nearing its end, but a final chapter for the beleaguered property has yet to be written. And whether a sequel is in the works remains to be seen.

For some people in Shelby County, it's no surprise when the tax man comes knocking after unpaid property taxes have begun to mount. Vince Vaghela, whose Mississippi-based development company wants to convert a Downtown Memphis high-rise into a hotel, is not one of those people.